Welcome, everyone to the SCORE fantasy football podcast.

I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score.

Great to have you riding along with us today as we prepare for the second month of the fantasy season already.

And I've talked about this before, how I like to break down the season into shorter stretches.

And for me, that's normally four weeks since.

And it is very easy after the first month to get overly excited about your team if you're 4 and 0 or 3 and 1. And it's also easy to be really disappointed if you're 0 and 4 or if you're 1 and 3. But there's so much time left. And I know I'm in a lot of leagues, but just thinking back last year to the score office league, I was 0 and 4. I had some injuries at the start of the year. And then I made some moves. I turned things around and I ended up in the finals. And now I lost in the finals, but we don't have to talk about that part. The main point is that I made it to the finals after that bad start. Regardless, it is a long season. You have to keep working on your roster. You can't get too high or too low based on the result so far. and that's why I want to go over some strategic moves today. Some moves that you could be making right now. We'll do that with our guest, Tara Roberts, a Yahoo fantasy. And the focus is going to be for fantasy managers who do have that losing record who need to save their season here. But a lot of the moves are going to make sense for everybody, just ways to give yourself an edge over the next stretch. Before we get Tara in here, though, I think I got some players that you should be buying low on right now and that could help kickstart your team as well. So let's take a look at my top trade targets this week as we kick things up a notch with our friends at Franks Red Hot. Let's Frank it up. And it's going to be tough to top last week because I had Jaden Reed and Jordan Addison who both had monster games in week four. I also recommended Jonathan Brooks, who you can still probably trade for because his return has been delayed by another week. But let's find three more players for you. And the first one on my list this week heading into week five, T. Higgins on the Bengals. It's been a quiet start

to the season after he missed the first two games with a hamstring injury, and since he's posted

three for 39 and six for 60, and he hasn't found the end zone yet, but bigger days are coming.

He had 10 targets in last week's game, and with that kind of usage, bigger stat lines will

follow. So see if you can get Higgins now before the window to acquire him closes.

The second name on my list, David and Joku on the Browns.

The forgotten tight end in fantasy land, finished as the tight end seven in fantasy points per game last year,

then got off to a very hot start in week one, had four catches for 44 yards,

despite only playing

37% of the snaps for the Browns, because he left early with that ankle injury.

We haven't seen him play since, but he's back on the practice field this week.

The return is coming soon, maybe even on Sunday.

And it's possible that his managers have already found another tight end option while in

Djoku was sidelined. So see if you can make an offer to get him. Wouldn't shock me at all, given the state of the tight end position, if Injoku finishes as a top five fantasy tight end the rest of the way. And then my last buy low target this week, D'Andre Hopkins on the Titans. And this one shouldn't be expensive because Hopkins is older. He's been injured this year. I think people are down on him. Really only had one usable fantasy performance so far in the first month. And I bet most managers probably had him on their benches for that one. I don't think a lot of people were using him. But now he's going on buy. It's going to come back from the buy. Should be healthier than he's been all season. And there's two paths here for him to pay off.

Either we get a healthier Hopkins for the remainder of the season in Tennessee.

And the Titan schedule features friendly matchups against defenses that are in the top 10 fantasy points allowed to receivers.

Eight of their next 12 games feature those kind of defenses.

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